Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

We are what we believe we are.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

There is little success where there is little laughter.